Grievous Injury Archives

Former SP’s paperweight attack on subordinate was no official duty: Karnataka HC refuses to quash proceedings

It would only be appropriate to apply nexus test to overt acts and determine, if they are wholly or reasonably connected to discharge of official function by accused and by taking note of fact that Section 170 Karnataka Police Act, 1963 extends statutory protection even to reasonable excesses.

Case Briefs High Courts

“No grievous hurt or use of weapons reported by victim”; Madras HC sets aside Section 397 IPC conviction of man accused of robbing senior citizen

“It is to be seen that victim is an elderly person, who would have been in a state of shock, such incident does not happen to everybody. It is a rare incident, which gets embedded in the mind and which cannot be forgotten.”

Cabinet Decisions Legislation Updates

BREAKING | Cabinet approves Ordinance to amend — Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 to make violent acts against healthcare personnel as cognizable & non-bailable offenses

Cabinet approves promulgation of Ordinance to amend the making such acts of violence as cognizable and non-bailable offences and to provide compensation